Claudio Ranieri was up to his old tricks yesterday and helped his Cagliari team (and clubgowi) coming from 2-0 down at the break to defeat Parma 3-2. He made two changes at half time (including taking his captain off) and another three shortly after the hour mark, shifting formation and was rewarded with a lead to take to the second leg. Zito Luvumbo came off the bench to score twice and pick up MOTM plaudits, but we really know that should have gone to The Tinkerman!

 

 

 

 

Huge game for Parma, they will move to within a point of safety with all three points and to within touching distance of the teams in 15th and 16th place. Genoa are relatively safe, at least for now on 28 points, they are winless in six and have not scored in their last three away starts and only 8 times all season on the road , with those goals coming in just 5 of 13 games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milan 81-47

Sassuolo 72-58

Napoli 73-26

Roma 74-46

Juventus 52-41

Atalanta 72-51

 

 

Only four rounds, but I have had several requests to run the Italian numbers , so here goes........

 

Torino and Genoa have only played 3 games, Napoli and Juventus have too, but the Old Lady were awarded a 3-0 home win in their fixture after Napoli were ordered not to travel by their local health authority, butSerie A know best ! Napoli are, of course, appealing that decision.

 

Milan 42-30